Boeing Hands Pentagon WGS Satellite 6, WGS-5 to Launch Wednesday
Boeing has delivered the sixth wideband global satellite communications spacecraft to the Defense Department in preparation for its scheduled launch in 2013. The company shipped the WGS-6 satellite from its facility in El Segundo, Calif. to Titusville, Fla. and the spacecraft will be tested, fueled and integrated before its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Boeing [...]
A consortium of companies led by BAE Systems is set to conduct test flights of a combat drone later this year over a desert in southern Australia, nearly four years after BAE tested a propeller-driven drone over the same range. The Taranis drone is named after the Celtic god of thunder and is the world’s [...]
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Lockheed Develops Air Traffic Platform For Civil, Military Aviation; Sandy Samuel Comments
February 11, 2013 No Comment
Lockheed Martin has launched a new air traffic management platform intended for both the military and civil aviation sectors. The company worked with Australia-based Adacel Technologies Ltd. to develop SkyLine Enterprise, which is intended to search for situations in an airplane’s flight path that could potentially cause a delay or pose danger, Lockheed said Monday. [...]
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Cisco and Netherlands-based electronics maker NXP Semiconductor have made a strategic investment in Australia-based networking firm Cohda Wireless for an undisclosed amount, NIS Magazine reports. Jarrod White writes Cohda is building a network intended for cars to communicate safety information and connect to roadside sensor nodes using a cloud-based intelligence platform. Andreas Mai, Cisco product [...]
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Northrop Develops Biometrics Info System Proof of Concept; Samuel Abbate Comments
November 30, 2012 No Comment
Northrop Grumman is developing a system for storing biometrics data and intelligence and will evaluate requirements for a future information management system. The company said it holds a one-year contract to develop an automated biometric information system for the Australian military and recently delivered a proof of concept for testing and refining of analytics techniques. [...]
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Hewlett-Packard Australia Pty ltd. has signed a technology services agreement where it will design, build and maintain a part of the information, communication and technology systems for the South Australia Government’s next-generation hospital. The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be the first to use version 2.0 of the HP Digital Hospital Solution as the technology [...]
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